Alive or hacking?

Back from dead... or not
So I see... Nabaztag should work again. YAY! Except.. I can't get mine to work. It seems that it doesn't work with Apple Airport Extreme. I tried to change channel to 11 but it didn't help. I assigned own IP address for the bunny but no. I can see from routers logs that I tries to connect every 30 seconds.

Jan 23 19:38:58    Severity:5    Associated with station X
Jan 23 19:38:58    Severity:5    Installed unicast TKIP key for supplicant X

If I remember correctly the last time I got it working was when I changed encryption to plain WPA. But there isn't that option anymore. There is just WPA/WPA2 personal. I read from Apple's forum that

"For the Apple routers, the TKIP encryption protocol is used when these routers are configured for "WPA/WPA2 Personal." In addition, wireless clients capable of using the stronger AES/CCMP protocol can connect with that protocol as well.

When the AirPorts are configured for "WPA2 Personal" only clients capable of supporting AES/CCMP can connect."

So TKIP should work. It's not that, or is it?

One really irritating thing is that http://www.nabaztag.com/ site is completely in French. If you advertise that now your Nabaztags work and all, could you translate those sites to English? You should be able to English. I don't need proper translation. Google one would be nice. But http://translate.google.com doesn't work on that site. WTF?


Also I was thinking of the possibility to bring my bunny to university. But our university wifi needs web login information. And it is not possible to connect Nabaztag to that kind of network.


Arduino + RFID
But this is something I'm looking for: Hacked: Nabaztag + Arduino + RFID = send any custom data to your bunny, Hacking the Nabaztag – Arduino injects via I2C data into RFID Reader, NabaztagInjector – An Arduino RFID Hack

I'm thinking of joining to local Hacklab. Maybe I just bring my bunny to them and give permission to do what they want.

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I'm really hoping that if you have some comments either how to get my bunny to online or hacking it, I would love to hear from you!

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Sick holiday

So... I send my bunny back to the shop I buy it (verkkokauppa.com) and now they are messing up my bunny. They said that their post system is in rush. *sigh* But.. I'm getting new bunny, they promised.

I'm plucking up the courage to mail to Violet and ask some compensation since this will be my 4rd bunny. Not funny at all.. How can they go broken just sitting in table alone? HOW?!

But I'm feeling that I'm very alone without my bunny.. I want it back soon!

Really broken ear

I'm so tired of this... The whole motor of the ear is broken. It doens't respond when I move the ear. Before, when I had similar problems it was just that the ear was badly placest and the motor couldn't move it. But now.. *sigh*

I don't know what should I do. Propably I would get new bunny from the shop I bought this. Or the second opinion is to mail to Violet and whine.. They said in spring that I can send my bunny there when it discovered broken leds.. Now it has broken leds and broken ear. I'm pessimistic about it how long the new bunny would last. But maybe the quality is better now than in spring.

*BIG SIGH*

Insane

Is some one other having similar problems: All lights are orange but the bottom is flashing orange and violet same time.. It looks like that bunny can't respond anything. I deleted waiting messages from server, so it stops blinking it's nose in violet and orange. This behaviour don't go away until I reboot my bunny.

I mailed about this problem to Violet month ago, but they didn't know what was causing it and what I should do. I think it was maybe that WLAN was not working properly. But now I'm with different WLAN. I really don't know which is causing this.

My bunny is monday's piece... It has now 2 broken red led's (some times 3) and so on. But I love it and don't want to change it.

Regards,
Owner of Pyridiini